little happiness

Chapter 016 Appetizers

Du Ruo finished drinking half a pot of tea, only to see Ye Qingqi coming back from the balcony, and just wanted to ask her if she would like some tea, but unexpectedly, Ye Qingqi walked over with a blank face, put the red wine on the bar, and went back to his room.

"Xiao Ruo, I won't disturb your rest, I want to go home first."

Du Ruo didn't expect Shan Xiaotian to leave so soon, "Don't you want tea?"

"No, you should drink less, so as not to fall asleep at night." Shan Xiaotian picked up his bag, stood at the door, and said with a smile: "When you rest next time, you can come to my place to play."

Du Ruo always felt that the emotions of these two people were not right, so he asked in a low voice, "Are... are you really okay?"

Standing at the door, Shan Xiaotian looked at Duruo in front of him and couldn't help but walked over and hugged her. Just about to say that it was okay, when he heard Ye Qingqi's door opening, he leaned over and kissed Duruo's forehead by accident. "I'm leaving, be good."

Before he could react, Du Ruo heard two doors closing at the same time. He turned around and looked at Ye Qingqi holding a mug in his hand. Thinking of the tea he hadn't finished drinking, he suggested, "Boss Ye, would you like Do not drink tea?"

Ye Qingqi looked at Du Ruo indifferently, "Please pour me a glass."

When Du Ruo thought that his tea would not be wasted, he felt happy, and happily walked over to pour tea for Ye Qingqi, heaving a sigh of relief, "I made three servings, but I drank half of it alone."

"It's said that tea tasting and wine tasting can't be done alone. I didn't expect you to be able to enjoy more than two people by yourself." Ye Qingqi took the tea handed over by Guo Ruo, took a sip, and glanced at his half bottle of red wine. She raised her eyebrows, "The half bottle of red wine was meant to be finished with your classmate, how about I drink tea with you and you drink with me?"

Du Ruo put down the teacup and said seriously: "But I don't drink very well."

"Tea hangover, not to mention tomorrow is the weekend, and you don't need to work, so by the way, make some appetizers, and it's just a good time to practice your alcohol tolerance." Ye Qingqi took out two goblets from the bar counter, "Today's Airplane meals are not to my liking."

Hearing this, Du Ruo immediately ran over to open the refrigerator and asked, "Then Mr. Ye, what do you want to eat?"

After Ye Qingqi finished drinking the tea in the cup, the kiss suddenly flashed in his mind, and he replied casually, "You decide."

……

At dusk, Du Ruo prepared three plates of appetizers and brought them to the coffee table on the terrace. When Ye Qingqi looked at the contents of the three plates, he smiled.

"I think that's what my mother made for my father's drinks." Du Ruo read something wrong from Ye Qingqi's expression, "Could it be... isn't it?"

"You know that red wine is reserved for western food, and your cucumber and boiled cabbage belong to Chinese food. I can at most help you move this fried dumpling to Japan, and it hasn't gone out of Asia." Ye Qingqi picked up the red wine in his hand and shook it Taking a sip, he smiled and said, "But it's okay, this is like the import and export business we do, combining Chinese and Western."

No matter how Du Ruo heard this, he was comforting himself, sat obediently on the side, picked up his own red wine, "Mr. Ye, what is the best pairing with this red wine?"

Seeing her serious look, Ye Qingqi found it interesting, and looked back at the cup in his hand, "There are different types of wine, you taste it according to your mood, and you drink it according to your connections. As for what is the best pairing, it depends on what you want."

"So what's Mr. Ye's mood now? Happy or unhappy?" Du Ruo looked at Ye Qingqi's side face through the floor lamp, and the little neon lights swaying from the wine glass were reflected in her eyes, which was extremely beautiful.

"Of course I'm happy, especially seeing my old friend's younger sister." Ye Qingqi shook his wine glass slowly, raised his eyebrows and asked, "You know her very well?"

For some reason, Du Ruo felt that Ye Qingqi's so-called happiness sounded a bit bitter, and it might be because of the exhaustion of the journey, so he nodded and responded: "Sister Xiaotian and my other two roommates, I met them in college Good friends, good relationship, take care of each other.”

"I see."

Du Ruo leaned back on the chair relaxedly, held the glass of red wine that was still half full after several sips, and said with emotion: "I didn't expect Mr. Ye to know Miss Xiaotian's sister, and suddenly I feel that the world is so small."

"It's really small." Ye Qingqi posed in the same posture, holding a glass of red wine, looking at the starry sky covered by neon lights.

"But Miss Xiaotian is not very happy today, because she can't arrange her own life. As a friend, I can't do anything. It's really useless." Du Ruo said this, feeling a little depressed, holding a glass of wine to drink After taking a big mouthful, he turned to look at Ye Qingqi and asked, "Mr. Ye, if it were you, what would you do?"

Ye Qingqi looked back at Du Ruo, thought for two seconds before saying, "What kind of thing?"

"It's not a partner that you choose at will, but a partner that your family chooses for you..." Du Ruo's voice was a little frustrated, "I only now understand that every family has hard-to-read scriptures. Seeing Miss Xiaotian unhappy, I It’s just intentional, but it can’t help anything.”

Ye Qingqi didn't want to make any comments on the matter of the Shan family. Looking up at the night sky, he slowly circled the question, "You have to look at this question in several levels. When you have your own, no matter who you are I can’t shake your heart, but when you have nothing to belong to, many people will choose to compromise in the face of family pressure, even if they regret it later, they will compromise.”

"But if you don't like this person, you can't accept it just because you haven't met him yet!" Du Ruo insisted on his ideal view of relationships.

"Perhaps this is the most contradictory part of people. Sometimes even if you meet someone you like, you will have conflicts because of family arrangements, your determination will waver, and you will finally give up. It is because of a certain choice that you can't see the end." Ye Qingqi lamented After finishing, he raised the red wine glass in his hand, "At this time, the power of wine emerges, savoring regret and growth."

"But wine can't replace this regret after all, it's just anesthesia!"

Ye Qingqi saw that Duruo's expression was serious and ignorant, and asked with a smile, "Have you ever liked anyone?"

Du Ruo didn't expect this question to come back to him, blinked his eyes, and said with a smile: "I feel that the word "feeling" is very far away from me, and I don't think I have the ability to like someone."

"What if someone likes you?"

"Like me?... I don't know." Du Ruo curled his lips, suddenly realized Ye Qingqi's words, and suddenly realized: "Mr. Ye! I understand what you mean, the reason why Miss Xiaotian is unhappy is because she likes me. people."

Ye Qingqi admired Du Ruo's brain circuit, and felt a little helpless, following her train of thought and asked: "Then what if the person she likes doesn't realize it, or... doesn't like her?"

Du Ruo couldn't understand this truth at all, and always felt that everyone's emotional world was too complicated.

It was so complicated that she didn't want to touch it, and was even a little scared.

"Why is the relationship so complicated?" Du Ruo pondered for a long time but couldn't figure out why, and sighed: "Shouldn't the relationship be very simple, I like you, do you like me?"

Ye Qingqi held the wine glass and listened to Du Ruo's views on feelings.

"Shouldn't love be pure? Shouldn't family affection be pure? In such a relationship, with so many complexities added, isn't it tiring to live?" Du Ruo suddenly felt wronged while talking, because she thought of her own Mother, after three glasses of red wine in a row, she blushed and said angrily, "I don't want such love, and I don't want such family affection!"

Ye Qingqi sat on the side and looked at her silently with his chin in his hands. He didn't know if she was saying these words for others, or for herself?

The night wind blows, and it is slightly cool.

Neither of them ate a few mouthfuls of the three dishes of appetizers Du Ruo made, and Du Ruo drank most of the half bottle of red wine.Du Ruo, who was sober for a short time, suddenly realized a problem that made her happy. During this period of getting along, she was able to talk about so many topics with the landlord.

But some don't remember what they talked about.

But what to talk about is not important, the important thing is that there is something to talk about, as long as I think about it, I feel happy.

Suddenly laughed out loud.

A cold and gentle voice came from his ear, and Du Ruo knew it was Ye Qingqi without opening his eyes.

"You're drunk again." Ye Qingqi held his breath in a sudden joy, he didn't expect that the child would fall asleep right away while talking, "It's cold in the autumn night, let's go back first."

The drowsy Du Ruo only felt that Ye Qingqi's embrace was particularly comfortable, and the faint fragrance of her body, smelling it, seemed to be more drunk.

Standing on the spot, Du Ruo naturally hugged Ye Qingqi back based on her inner feelings, unwilling to leave, no matter how the person in her arms supported her, she didn't want to move.

"Du Ruo?" Ye Qingqi, who had been dragged to the balcony door for a long time, let out a sigh of relief, and reminded: "Do you know that it's easy to lose money when you drink outside like this, huh?"

Ye Qingqi's wry smile was caused by the sound of reproaches from Shi Shenhaihai. After all, this is the trouble he caused. If he drags a person who has no capacity for alcohol to drink, he will naturally have to bear the consequences.

Ye Qingqi's body was completely leaning on the sliding door at this time, and Duruo was snuggling up beside him. After a long time, Duruo in his arms did not let go of his thoughts.

The helpless Ye Qingqi could only use brute force to drag Du Ruo back to her own room. The guy who thought he would let go of his arms when he saw the bed, hugged himself onto the bed together.

Ye Qingqi subconsciously supported it with his hands, just about to stare at this mischievous little thing, but saw Du Ruo's exquisite facial features very close at hand, every breath of hers was clearly sprinkled on the tip of Ye Qingqi's nose, Ye Qingqi's beautiful eyebrows He frowns slightly, then spreads out in an instant, struggling to break free from the drunk's embrace, turning and leaving without staying.

Du Ruo, who was already sound asleep, turned over, hugged the quilt and fell asleep completely.

……

Ye Qingqi, who left, did not return to the room, but turned on the bathtub on the balcony. During the filling time, the white curtains on the balcony stand automatically rose, and the projector on the wall was lit, playing the video of the latest stage play.

Ye Qingqi went back to her room and changed into her nightgown, opened a bottle of red wine from the wine cabinet again, and closed the door for her when passing by the oversized room.

Flower petals and bubbles spilled into the bathtub, and the water was almost full by the time I finished drinking a glass of wine and watching the stage play.Ye Qingqi took off his nightgown and stepped into the water, his whole body was soaked in the white foam, only Ye Qingqi's delicate face was exposed, looking up at the wonderful performance in the stage play.

The beautiful music of the stage play made Ye Qingqi intoxicated in her own world, because the exchange tonight made her think back to herself ten years ago.

At that time, the relationship I was pursuing was actually very similar to Duruo, as long as I liked it, nothing else was important.Unfortunately, the person I like doesn't think so.

Ye Qingqi still hasn't figured out whether the harm caused by the trade-off was mutual or whether he suffered it himself.

The sliding door of the balcony suddenly made a sound, Ye Qingqi who heard the sound turned around and was taken aback for a moment.

Du Ruo, who was sober, had no sense of time at all. What she was thinking about was that the appetizers she had prepared hadn't been finished yet, and they would definitely be broken tomorrow, but she didn't expect that the terrace would turn into an open-air movie theater.

Most importantly, the people in the bathtub...

Du Ruo rubbed his eyes without seeing clearly, and was about to walk forward when he was called by a cold voice.

"Du Ruo?"

Du Ruo, who was somewhat sober, blinked and saw the person in the bathtub clearly.Ye Qingqi's jet-black and smooth hair hangs loose, and the fairness wrapped in black is Ye Qingqi's exquisite facial features and slender neck. The collarbones on both sides are faintly visible in the white foam. This kind of existence makes Du Ruo completely ignore the picture on the screen. The person was stunned, dumbfounded, and suddenly didn't know whether to turn around...or to turn around...

The moment Du Ruo and Ye Qingqi looked into each other's dark eyes, Du Ruo covered his eyes with his heart beating fast and turned around, "Yes...I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I just want...to eat the rest of the appetizers. eat."

Before Ye Qingqi could respond, Du Ruo covered his eyes and walked back desperately. Because he was still drunk and his sight was blocked, Du Ruo hurriedly bumped into the glass door.

"Hey!"

Ye Qingqi: "..."

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